All Articles tagged continental tectonics

• Science Paper
  May 24, 2024 EDT
  Late Cretaceous Uplift of Grand Canyon: Evidence From Fluid Inclusions
  Laura L. BarnettPeter CopelandVirginia B. SissonSteve Naruk

  Fluid inclusion entrapment temperatures and burial histories from Grand Canyon suggest major denudation of late Cretaceous strata occurred from 89-58 Ma, consistent with early stages of Grand Canyon Formation.

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• Science Paper
  November 01, 2010 EDT
  Setting of the ∼2560 Ma Qôrqut Granite Complex in the Archean Crustal Evolution of Southern West Greenland
  Allen P. NutmanClark R. L. FriendJoe Hiess

  The Archean gneiss complex of West Greenland contains packages of unrelated rocks created during relatively short periods of time in arc-like magmatic environments, and having similarities to rocks formed at...

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